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To: RMF who wrote (1769)2/20/2013 8:30:12 AM
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You are quite right. There are many versions of "Mark". The Church fathers only knew of the versions before crafty scribes had editorialised so that the gospels and Acts would at least have an exceedingly clumsy (and still utterly unbelievable) pretension of contrived congruency.

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There are no gods involved. Just primitive people looking for a little help in what matters: feeding, fucking, and looting land and possessions. It realIy doesn't matter whether Shaman, medicine man, or Priest. Somebody gets the privilege of talking to an invisible power and of commanding obedience to that invisible person's desires. Of course, this involves feeding the family with "offerings" of appeasement, guilt, and so forth. And this strange magical power (conveniently) stays in the "family" in the normal course of events. -g-

Great job if you can get it! Look at how the Catholic Church ran the world and made trillions just by this simple formula. But even the smallest of tribes have their own success stories when it comes to preying on the terror and the superstition of the untutored.
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